Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says digitisation will speed up the processing of applying for unabridged birth and marriage certificates
The department of home affairs has embarked on a R2,4bn, three-year project to digitise more than 350-million documents with about 90% of the funds being used to employ 10,000 unemployed young graduates to undertake the work.
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced the project at a briefing Thursday after having recently received confirmation by finance minister Enoch Godongwana that R500m would be available for the project in the 2022/23 financial year...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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